Quote:Aristide wrote: " Very good critique on the last scene, Anon. It sounds like a winner if you forget about o/y and turn the sound off. " Thank you, Aristide! I can do without the older/younger contra...

"If you enjoy EVERYTHING with naked women in it, including guys watching in the background and/or girls wearing their high heels in bed, you probably won't care about the criticisms that bother me - but if you DO care about things like weak direction & lame scripts, then I can tell you a few things!"

My point, as always with you Anon, is that you deliberately portray folks who don't see things your way--be they commenters or especially writers & directors--as caricatures. They are straw men that you can easily knock down with "finger-wags" such as: they must "like weak direction and lame scripts".

It never occurs to you to write something like,

"Since it has so often been the case, that my review of a given girl/girl movie has been the only negative one posted, it is obvious that my views and tastes are idiosyncratic and peculiar to myself. Therefore I will post my review, but refrain from labeling or attacking script writers and directors as "weak or lame", since it is clear that my views in that regard are strictly my own, and do not reflect any consensus."

Putting aside the step-mother/step-daughter theme - for me, contrast is very important when the subject matter has taboo elements.

I would like to see butch and femme, heavy and slim, old and young, rich and poor, black and white, even dirty and clean encounters.

Why can't we have a story of a hetro wife who's desperate for some extra money and is given a job by a rich slightly older woman who starts demanding sexual favors and then have the story develop where the power structures flip between the characters? Themes of coercion, forced but secretly desired sex and shifting power dynamics would certainly be very erotic. Maybe the wife will leave her straight marriage and enter into a very different relationship. Maybe servitude etc.

Desire, known and unknown, and, just as important, development of character. that is change in their behavior, desires...

These are some of the elements that I like to see in taboo stories.

I know what Aristide is going to say: turn down the volume and dial your imagination up! way up!

Quote:Putting aside the step-mother/step-daughter theme - for me, contrast is very important when the subject matter has taboo elements.I would like to see butch and femme, heavy and slim, old and young, ri...

You wouldn't need a feature film script to do that either. It could be done within the organizing structure of a four-scene porn film using brief scripts and many cues. And good roleplaying of course.

nbsy wrote: "I would like to see butch and femme, heavy and slim, old and young, rich and poor, black and white, even dirty and clean encounters."

ALL of those contrasts can be highly erotic, nbsy, IF the director behind-the-camera shows some imagination & creativity - AND can get his-or-her actresses to actually ENVISION the role they are supposed to play - as opposed to what Dana Vespoli (and Sweetheart Video) did here, and simply cast a large-breasted older actress (e.g. Jasmine Jae) opposite a beautiful younger blonde (e.g. Elsa Jean) and then hope that the two will figure it out on their own!

I'm pretty sure that Jasmine thought she had been hired to show-off her enormous boobs, and probably had NO IDEA that she was expected to share the limelight with a hot younger blonde girl. Ditto for blonde older woman Brandi Love in scene two - when younger girl Karlee Grey declares: "I have a crush on you and fantasize about you dominating me," Brandi shows NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER in stripping Karlee completely nude and sensually playing with her gorgeous, submissive young body - no, Brandi wants instead to flaunt HER OWN BODY for the camera - and director Dana Vespoli allowed it, as she probably had other things on her mind.

"Themes of coercion, forced but secretly desired sex and shifting power dynamics would certainly be very erotic."

I fully agree - but you need a TALENTED director/writer to create that kind of a dynamic, nbsy, and too many modern production houses are more about QUANTITY than QUALITY - sad to say. I still can't believe that Dana Vespoli actually had Nina Elle ask pretty younger Casey Calvert: "Have you ever been with a girl before?" - I mean, SERIOUSLY? Is Dana ripping-off those incredibly lame seduction lines first created by those erotic-geniuses at Girlfriends Films?

- (FYI: there are NO "erotic geniuses" at Girlfriends Films - that was just sarcasm - GFF gave-up on erotic intros over a decade ago, viewing them as completely unnecessary!)

I know Anon, that you are upset about the not-so great quality of many movies that have been produced by studios that made excellent movies when they first started out.

Let's face it, people want to make money and cutting costs and churning out hastily produced movies with silly/tongue-in-cheek story-lines is a good way of doing that. Many porn consumers just want to see the action.

I agree with many of your criticisms; however, sometimes they put out something good. Take for example Mr. Stills By Allen. Some things he makes are not my cup of tea, others I think are not very good and once in a while he makes something really good - like A Wife's Affair.

Perhaps if we can convey to the people at Girlfriends Films and other studios that we'd love it if every once in a while (say once every 2 or 3 months), that they make a movie that has good set-ups, a story line that makes sense and good character development, then we will praise it accordingly and ignore the tremendous amount of silly stuff that they produce for the non-discerning porn consumer.

With all these companies, we can end up with 6 or 7 movies per year and at least one would fulfill your and my desire for a good dom/sub flick.

There are better older/younger girl/girl movies out there, and Sweetheart has done better. But this is hardly an awful film.

The best scene, by far, is the Sarah Vandella/Anna DeVille one. Part of what makes it such a good scene is the contrast between Sarah and Anna. Physically speaking, Sarah is blond with a fit, tanned body. Anna, meanwhile, is a redhead with beautiful porcelain skin and a slim, lanky frame. Demeanor-wise, the contrast is even more striking. Sarah is sexy and sly, with a mischievous glint in her eyes that promises tantalizing possibilities. Anna has an innocent, slightly awkward look, which suggests waiting, and wanting to be taught. The sounds of the scene, Sarah’s soft growls of instruction and prodding, coupled with Anna’s sweet moans of longing and consent add immeasurably to the scene.

What makes the Brandi Love/Karlee Grey scene a stand-out is the almost constant physical contact between these two performers. The set-up is a little lame, but once the sex begins this is a pretty explosive scene. As is usually the case, Brandi plays a nurturing dominant woman. Karlee, who can play a range of roles, here plays eager and awed by Brandi’s physical presence. This scene has a nice hungry, “abandoned to lust” feel to it.

Unlike Brandi Love and Sarah Vandella, it feels to me like both Jasmine Jae and Nina Elle only want to dabble in girl/girl, rather than really commit to it. The intensity is not there, that I feel with Sarah and Brandi’s scenes.

Having said that, I still enjoyed the Jasmine Jae/Elsa Jean scene quite a bit. What Jasmine lacks in intensity, Elsa Jean brings-on in abundance. Jasmine, with her tall, voluptuous frame and British accent, is good playing the “proper” lady who is a “smoldering cauldron of lust” underneath the surface. While I might not always be convinced of the sincerity of Jasmine’s moaning, the sight of these two beauties rolling around on the bed is very well filmed.

The Nina Elle/Casey Calvert scene was the least interesting scene on the disc, as far as I was concerned. I adore Casey Calvert, with her porcelain skin and sleepy/seductive eyes. But I didn’t feel any connection or chemistry between Casey and her partner here. Nina Elle—who I have no doubt can be dynamite in guy/girl scenes—feels out of place here, especially with her inch long pointed finger nails that must have made Casey Calvert a little bit cautious.

humble opinion wrote: "The best scene, by far, is the Sarah Vandella/Anna DeVille one... the Nina Elle/Casey Calvert scene was the least interesting scene on the disc, as far as I was concerned."

I know that you're not trying to endorse my review, humble - but if you read what I wrote in my review of this particular DVD, "the best scene, by far, is the Sarah Vandella/Anna DeVille one" - which I graded an overall "B" - while "the Nina Elle/Casey Calvert scene was the least interesting scene on the disc" - I thought so, too, grading it a dismal "D+!"

Our opinions matched pretty-much exactly alike!

"Jasmine, with her tall, voluptuous frame and British accent, is good playing the “proper” lady who is a “smoldering cauldron of lust” underneath the surface. While I might not always be convinced of the sincerity of Jasmine’s moaning, the sight of these two beauties rolling around on the bed is very well filmed."

I have no complaints about Jasmine, except that director Dana Vespoli seemingly failed to explain to her that she's supposed to be ATTRACTED to her beautiful young blonde stepdaughter, Elsa Jean! But instead, Jasmine felt that her huge breasts were supposed to be the center of attention, and director Vespoli allowed it. When she asks Elsa if she's ever kissed a boy before, I actually MOANED ALOUD - I expect that kind of crap on a Girlfriends Films video - but NOT from Sweetheart Video - and certainly NOT from Dana Vespoli!

Again, it's not Jasmine Jae's fault - she allowed herself to be directed as she is supposed to be, but a kissing lesson? Seriously? And she NEVER shows any inkling of actual physical attraction for the hot little blonde she's been cast with - that's just bad directing!

- If you're going to make an older/younger video, it's a whole lot hotter if the older woman actually WANTS the pretty girl as opposed to offering kissing lessons instead!

Quote:humble opinion wrote: " The best scene, by far, is the Sarah Vandella/Anna DeVille one... the Nina Elle/Casey Calvert scene was the least interesting scene on the disc, as far as I was concerned. " I...

How much Jasmine Jae is actually attracted to Elsa Jean could be a debatable point. But that Jasmine Jae was playing a character who was attracted to Elsa Jean is NOT a debatable point. Of course Jasmine's character was attracted to Elsa. Once Elsa impulsively kisses her, Jasmine softly takes charge, holding Elsa as she kisses the girl with increasing hunger.

Your problem, Anon, is that you always want to see a scene play out one way, and one way only--with the older woman dominating the younger. (In this case, you wanted to see Jasmine completely dominating Elsa), But the scene, and the sex, was much more balanced and consensual than that. That made for a much better scene, because Elsa Jean is a hotter and much more believable in her attraction for women than Jasmine Jae tends to be.

For roughly the last half of this scene, or maybe more even, Elsa Jean is pretty much crawling all over Jasmine Jae's deliciously voluptuous body--and Jasmine is clearly loving the attention!